AXIOS March 1, 2023
The increasing criminalization of abortion in the U.S. is exposing major gaps in the legal protection of health information, as more health data ends up in the hands of patients rather than doctors.
Why it matters: Health privacy in the post-Roe digital age is fraught as prosecutors seeking to enforce anti-abortion laws are free to go after reproductive health data in mobile apps, where it is unprotected by federal law.
- Companies buy and sell sensitive health data, which is one concern; the unregulated use of personal data to enforce abortion bans is another.
- As many as one-third of women use digital tools to track their periods, Axios’ Erin Brodwin reports. That can be for reasons as simple as monitoring...
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